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Presto CD - Chamber and instrumental gems from Decca
52 titles from the Decca archives this week - some great performances of Beethoven's string quartets from the Fitzwilliam and Amadeus Quartets and his violin sonatas from Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy, plus a double-bill of Czech string quartets from the Hawthorne Quartet, Mozart piano sonatas from András Schiff and many more!
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Performed by András Schiff.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy is joined by Lynn Harrell for the Cello Sonatas and Barry Tuckwell for the Horn Sonata Op. 17.
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Performed by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
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Performed by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
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Performed by Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy plays the Waldstein, Appassionata and Moonlight Sonatas.
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Performed by the Amadeus Quartet.
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Performed by Itzhak Perlman and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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Eric Crees directs the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
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Performed by the Takács Quartet.
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Julius Katchen plays works including the Handel and Paganini Variations and the Third Piano Sonata.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy and Franklin Cohen join the Cleveland Orchestra String Quartet.
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Performed by Julius Katchen.
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Performed by Josef Suk and Julius Katchen.
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Performed by the Vienna Philharmonia Quintet.
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Performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays a selection of Preludes, Nocturnes, Études and more.
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Performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Opp. 10 and 25.
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Kyung Wha Chung and Phillip Moll plays lollipops and encores by Elgar, Kreisler, Brahms, Poldini, Wieniawski and others.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy plays a selection of Études, Waltzes, and other short works.
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Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell and Itzhak Perlman perform Ravel's Piano Trio and Debussy's Violin Sonata and Cello Sonata.
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András Schiff, hornist Radovan Vlatkovic and clarinettist Kalman Berkes join the Takács Quartet.
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Performed by the Takács Quartet; Andreas Haefliger joins for the Piano Quintet.
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Performed by the Chung Trio.
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Pascal Rogé plays a selection of Nocturnes, Impromptus, Barcarolles and the Romances sans paroles Op. 17
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Performed by Alicia de Larrocha.
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Alicia de Larrocha plays Goyescas and El Pelele.
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Performed by the Hawthorne Quartet.
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Jorge Bolet plays Années de pèlerinage, 1ère année: Suisse.
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays transcriptions of works by Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Mozart, Verdi and Gounod.
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Jorge Bolet plays works including Funérailles, Liebestraum No. 3 and the Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto.
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Performed by Christophe Coin, Christophe Rousset, Vittorio Ghielmi and Pascal Monteilhet.
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Performed by the Quatuor Ysaÿe.
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Performed by the Chung Trio.
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Alicia de Larrocha plays Mozart's Fantasia and Sonata in C minor and a transcription of the Chaconne from JS Bach's Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin.
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Robert Levin and Anthony Halstead join the Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble.
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Sir Georg Solti joins the Melos Quartet.
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András Schiff plays Sonatas Nos. 2, 5, 6, and 10.
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András Schiff plays Sonatas Nos. 8, 11 and 18.
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Performed by Radu Lupu, Han de Vries, George Pieterson, Vicente Zarzo and Brian Pollard.
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Performed by Peter Hurford and the Amsterdam Mozart Players.
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Performed by András Schiff; programme also includes the Variations on Gluck's 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint'.
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Pascal Rogé plays a selection of the Improvisations, plus Les Soirées de Nazelles, Trois Mouvements perpétuels and other short works.
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Jorge Bolet plays the Variations on a Theme of Chopin, a selection of Preludes, and Kreisler's Liebesleid and Liebesfreud.
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Pascal Rogé plays a selection of Nocturnes and other short works including Poudre d'or, Descriptions automatiques and Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien).
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András Schiff performs fourteen sonatas.
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Performed by Christophe Rousset.
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Christopher van Kampen joins the Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
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Performed by Jorge Bolet.
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Performed by Alicia de Larrocha.
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Elgar Howarth directs the Philip Jones Ensemble in marches including King Cotton, Liberty Bell, and The Stars and Stripes Forever.
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